of course, one of the key arguments for barack obama in 2008, right, he was going to be the person that brought together red and blue and republicans have i think very wisely chosen a strategy of sort of constant implacable opposition, that has made it impossible for him to fulfill that promise. and the irnlny now is that mitt romney who spent most of the campaign and during the primary telling jokes about what a terrible place massachusetts was, bragging about all the vitos, saying this place is a s sodomite hell that i come from and the democratic majority that he had to deal with as evidence that he's the person that can work across the aisle there's this fascinating campaign down the stretch about who could work best across the al. betsy, you made an important role of government in these moments and that's the other subtext here and i want to talk about that and the ideological subtext. ♪ i'd like to thank eating right, whole grain, multigrain cheerios! mom, are those my jeans? [ female announcer ] people who choose more whole grain tend to weigh less than those who don't. multigr